Charley Pride Quotes

• The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else’s attitude was time I could put to better use.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Better, Thinking

• The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Music, Company

• Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Belief, Business

  Tags in Religious

• There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Republican

• There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Special, Theater, Entertainer

• What we don’t need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn’t.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Music, Need

• What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I’m Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People, Pride

• Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Music, Appeal

• When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn’t have to be pushed out.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Artist, New, Old

• I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Dad, Everybody, Cry

• I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Especially, People, Childhood, Strange

Charley Pride (31)

Birth:	18th March, 1938
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player, Businessman, Composer, Guitarist, Record Producer, Singer

About

Charley Frank Pride was born in Sledge, Mississippi. He is an American singer, guitarist, recording artist, performer and business owner. His greatest musical success came in the early- to mid-1970s when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. In 2010, Pride became a special investor and minority owner of the Texas Rangers Major League Baseball club.

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